Improving Staffing Practices in Student Affairs

Roger B Winston, Don G Creamer

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Most of us are not born good supervisors. Winston and Creamer's book gives us a comprehensive framework for thinking about and reexamining our staffin... Lees meer

The Work of Writing

Elizabeth Rankin

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Professional and academic writing is often seen as dull, dry, and as boring to write as it is to read. In The Work of Writing, Rankin challenges these... Lees meer

Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach

Jane Vella

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principle... Lees meer

Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities

Daniel James Rowley, Herman D Lujan, Michael G Dolence

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquely suited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerous institutions a... Lees meer

Successful Dissertations and Theses

David Madsen

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Madsen's book should be welcome both to graduate students about toundertake dissertations and to faculty needing to learn the role ofthesis adviser. .... Lees meer

Integrating Information Literacy Into the Higher Education Curriculum

Ilene F Rockman and Associates

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Research has shown that in order to develop information literacy skills, students must be given repeated opportunities throughout their college years ... Lees meer

Service-Learning in Higher Education

Barbara Jacoby and Associates

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• "Our communities depend on our ability to make the connection between education and democracy. This book can breathe new life into colleges and univer... Lees meer

The Virtual Student

Rena M Palloff, Keith Pratt

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Addresses the challenges of working with the virtual student in higher education. This book offers a profile of the virtual learner, giving an overvie... Lees meer

Counseling and Mental Health Services on Campus

James Archer, Stewart Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• This timely guide addresses the daunting challenge of meeting the increasing demand for mental health counseling services with limited resources. An i... Lees meer

Planning and Management for a Changing Environment

Marvin W Peterson, David D Dill, Lisa A Mets

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• An outstanding roster of higher education scholars and practitioners come together to offer latest expertise on strategic and operational planning wit... Lees meer

The Practitioner-Researcher

Peter Jarvis

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• "Jarvis does a real service by introducing a new vision of research into the current debates over the nature and mission of the academy." -- Continuin... Lees meer

Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education

Elizabeth J Tisdell

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Exploring Spirituality and Culture in Adult and Higher Education is written from the unique perspective of teacher, researcher, and author Elizabeth T... Lees meer

Understanding Faculty Productivity

Michael F Middaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• "An invaluable resource for any college and university striving tomeet the National Cost Commission's call to make what colleges doand what it costs m... Lees meer

Rethinking Student Affairs Practice

Patrick G Love, Sandra M Estanek

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• To be effective managers, student affairs professionals must understand the structures and processes that form the organizational context in which the... Lees meer

Knowing and Reasoning in College

Marcia B Baxter Magolda

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• This book shows how ways of knowing change over the course of college and how gAnder influences ways of reasoning. It provides both student affairs pr... Lees meer

Rethinking Literacy Education

B Allan Quigley

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• 1998 Winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult EducationIn this thought-provoking book, Quigley offers a new view of illiteracy... Lees meer

Changing College Classrooms

Diane F Halpern

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Changing College Classrooms provides useful ideas on the four hottest issues in higher education today: active learning, diversity, technology, and as... Lees meer

Pursuing Excellence in Higher Education

Brent D Ruben

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• In this important book, Brent D. Ruben, distinguished professor of communication and organizational psychology and executive director of the Center fo... Lees meer

Service-Learning

Timothy K Stanton, Dwight E Giles, Nadinne I Cruz

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• "A frank, thorough history and review of service-learning....Service-Learning is a critical piece of the large service-learningmovement. It is an idea... Lees meer

Learning Communities

Barbara Leigh Smith, Jean MacGregor, Roberta Matthews, Faith Gabelnick

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Learning Communities is a groundbreaking book that shows how learning communities (LCs) can be a flexible and effective approach to enhancing student ... Lees meer

How Academic Leadership Works

Robert Birnbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• This book reveals the complex factors that influence the real and perceived effectiveness of academic leaders. It shows that the qualities commonly th... Lees meer

Working with Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Ethnic minority youths often face unique challenges in their development. Working with Culture presents a range of culturally responsive psychotherape... Lees meer

Classroom Assessment Techniques

Thomas A Angelo, K Patricia Cross

• Paperback | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• This revised and greatly expanded edition of the 1988 handbookoffers teachers at all levels how-to advise on classroomassessment, including: What clas... Lees meer

Paths to the Professoriate

Donald H Wulff, Ann E Austin

• Hardcover | Engels | Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
• Paths to the Professoriate offers all those involved in higher education--everyone from administrators to scholars to graduate students--a much-needed... Lees meer